Linux System Engineer Job In London

As a Systems Engineer and member of the infrastructure team at a leading trading firm you will be building and maintaining trading infrastructure hyper-optimized for low-latency, operating systems, automation software, and development tools that allow our research and trading strategies to run worldwide 24/7.

You will have the opportunity to identify improvement opportunities in our environment, architecting, and deploying end-to-end solutions focused on simplicity and automation. Much of our hardware and operating system layers reflect the state-of-the-art at any given time.

Essential Requirements

• Strong knowledge of Linux systems, with hands-on experience in managing and troubleshooting Linux-based environments.
• Experience working in environments encompassing virtualization, networking devices, and storage.
• Demonstrable experience in troubleshooting, performance tuning, and optimizing production systems.

Skills

• Experience using deployment and automation tools such as Ansible, Airflow, and Jenkins for maintaining robust production environments.
• Knowledge of containerization technologies such as Docker.
• Comfortable with a range of current software development tools and practices (testing, source control, build systems, CI/CD, etc.)
• Attention to detail needed to manage and debug production services.
• Experience with research clusters and implementing tools such as Slurm workload manager.

Job Duties

• Own the lifecycle of our Linux-based servers and applications across our multiple business environments.
• Automate and troubleshoot a broad range of technical infrastructure.
• Implement and support performance monitoring and fault monitoring systems.
• Compile, package, install, and upgrade software and operating system components.
• Create repeatable, and deterministic server builds with collaborative input from development, trading, and hardware teams.
• Be an expert resource for performance tuning of the operating system, kernel, and server hardware.